May 25, 2013

Why Magaluf Has It All for Family Holidays

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    Finding the perfect family holiday isn’t always a simple task. Not only does the right destination need to keep the little ones entertained, there also has to be something to interest mum. Getting this mix of entertainment, transport and accommodation under budget is certainly no mean feat in today’s economy.   One destination [...]

Creating Italian-inspired recipes at home

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    Our first three weeks in Italy have already created an undoubtedly loyal family of Italiophiles, loving the atmosphere, the scenery, the people and of course, the food. Skirting our way through the markets, as far as skirting is possible with three buggies, we weave our way in and out of stalls laden with [...]

Our Big Family Road Trip: Lasson, Burgundy

Lasson Burgundy Church

      I cannot believe that it is already more than two weeks since we began our long-awaited trip, finally arriving at our first property in Lasson, Burgundy. This was not the original property we had booked.  As you may remember, the owners of the original property had contacted us to say there had [...]

Our first day in Italy – The real story about our rescue

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    Internet connection has been limited so I have not been unable to update the site at all.  Now that we have settled in a different place we have working Mifi and internet (thanks to an unlimited data sim card provided to us by Holiday Phone), so we are able to update you on our [...]

Our Big Family Road Trip: Moving South

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    It is 5am here – 4 am GMT – and I am awake with Isobel who decided, quite frankly, that she had enough of sleeping for one night.  This suits me fine as today we are moving on. With the weather averaging about 4°C here, our visit has been a little bit of [...]

Our Big Family Road Trip: Preparing to leave

Packing lists were stuck all over the kitchen cabinets for weeks!

      Perhaps this post should have been written before yesterday’s but never mind! The run-up to the trip was proving extremely stressful, not least because the person who was supposed to have transferred the funds from our savings account hadn’t actioned the request, leaving us without any money for the trip until 3pm [...]